It's true. There's a basically undocumented set of skills that you have to pick up first before the docs are useful. But also you can't pick up the skills, sometimes, without using the docs.
IMO this is one reasom to start with, or just test, a linux distro that has you do a bunch of low-level stuff manually. To install gentoo, you have to use the command line and call the various magical incantations to make the right things happen. Through repetition, and sometimes the documentation, you'll pick up what is happening.
You can always go back to a more automated distro, but you'll have the skills to put out the little fires that pop up here and there.
There's also a course out there somewhere called something like, "the missing semester of cs" that covers a bunch of common nerd skills that mostly applies to linux. Highly recommend it.
It's true. There's a basically undocumented set of skills that you have to pick up first before the docs are useful. But also you can't pick up the skills, sometimes, without using the docs.
IMO this is one reasom to start with, or just test, a linux distro that has you do a bunch of low-level stuff manually. To install gentoo, you have to use the command line and call the various magical incantations to make the right things happen. Through repetition, and sometimes the documentation, you'll pick up what is happening.
You can always go back to a more automated distro, but you'll have the skills to put out the little fires that pop up here and there.
There's also a course out there somewhere called something like, "the missing semester of cs" that covers a bunch of common nerd skills that mostly applies to linux. Highly recommend it.